By Richard Pagliaro | Friday, August 8, 2025Photo credit score: Matthew Calvis
The US Open is over earlier than it started for Paula Badosa.
Former world No. 2 Badosa has formally withdrawn from this month’s US Open.
Badosa, who has been battling a again damage lately, has not performed a match since bowing to Briton Katie Boulter in three units in her Wimbledon opener final month.
Badosa’s departure provides Swiss Jil Teichmann entry into the US Open predominant draw, the USTA introduced in the present day. Veteran Alize Cornet is now the primary participant out of the primary draw.
Initially, Badosa and ex-boyfriend Stefanos Tsitsipas have been on the entry record for the US Open Blended Doubles event. After they cut up as a pair, the pair withdrew from the US Open Blended Doubles.
On the USTA’s most up-to-date entry record, Badosa was set to accomplice Jack Draper in a match of Indian Wells’ champions, however that won’t occur along with her Flushing Meadows withdrawal.
An Australian Open semifinalist in January, Badosa will miss the US Open in her birthplace of New York Metropolis for the second time within the final three years.
A yr in the past, Badosa reached the US Open quarterfinals shedding to Emma Navarro 6-2, 7-5. Badosa went on to a profitable Asian swing reaching semifinals on the WTA 1000 in Beijing and on the WTA 500 in Ningbo the place she retired after dropping the primary set to Daria Kasatina.
As a consequence of her again points, Badosa has both retired or conceded a walkover seven occasions within the final two years.
